SUSY discovery prospects with MoEDAL
arXiv:1903.11022 · doi:10.1088/1742-6596/1586/1/012018
Abstract
We present a preliminary study on the possibility to search for massive long-lived electrically charged particles at the MoEDAL detector. MoEDAL is sensitive to highly ionising objects such as magnetic monopoles or massive (meta-)stable electrically charged particles and we focus on the latter in this paper. Requirements on triggering or reducing the cosmic-ray and cavern background, applied in the ATLAS and CMS analyses for long-lived particles, are not necessary at MoEDAL, due to its completely different detector design and extremely low background. On the other hand, MoEDAL requires slow-moving particles, resulting in sensitivity to massive states with typically small production cross sections. Using Monte Carlo simulations, we compare the sensitivities of MoEDAL versus ATLAS/CMS for various long-lived particles in supersymmetric models, and we seek a scenario where MoEDAL can provide discovery reach complementary to ATLAS and CMS.
8 pages, 5 figures; invited talk in 6th Symposium on Prospects in the Physics of Discrete Symmetries (DISCRETE 2018), 26-30 Nov 2018, Vienna, Austria, presented by V.A.M.; minor changes matching published version
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